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The Diary of Henry Machyn
… (Nares.) Like "lawn sleeves" or the lately discarded wig, it seems to have been regarded as the distinguishing …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… as stonemasons. 21 Other trades in Great Bedwyn included wig makers in the mid and later 18th century and a clock and …
Old and New London
… costume, as showing all the modifications of the flowing wig which marked the era of the later Stuarts. Besides the …
Old and New London
… Buckstone grown a foot taller, and wearing a light flaxen wig. Lady Sale we once knew as Queen Adelaide; and Oxford had …
Old and New London
… three minutes to tie up his nose with a string, put on a wig, and otherwise so to metamorphose himself that it was …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… A CHARD is described in a dictionary of hairdressing and wig making as 'A steel-toothed instrument for disentangling … [Cox (1966, pb 1969)]. When people chose not to wear a WIG, but their own hair, there seems to have been problems …
Old and New London
… and that the Heath was tenanted by gentlemen of the wig and gown, who were forced to sleep under canvas, like so …